Music A-Level
Call and response techniques
What Call and response techniques means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Call and response techniques
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A dialogue in which musical phrases are passed back and forth between two distinct groups, one group answering the musical statement of another.
Topics that use Call and response techniques
- Area of study 1: Western classical tradition 1650–1910 (compulsory) - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Antecedent phrase
- Antiphonal texture
- Aria
- Articulation
- Balanced phrases
- Bass suspension
- Basso continuo
- Binary form
Using Call and response techniques in the exam
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